WoW Chix

Last night, the guild decided to raid SSC. We all got together and headed to the instance and got all buffed up and ready to go. On the first pull my computer decided to hate me and I ended up restarting WoW. After that, things were going smoothly… till we got to Hydross. We had a couple wipes. The first wipe, people were trying to run away and "reset" the boss. Dudes… do you think you’re really gonna make it up the 2 elevators and out before he smashes you to pieces? No… no you’re not. So stand and die and the rest of us and run back. This really pissed Vamrick (and a lot of the rest of us) off because it’s such a waste of time. There was a huge group of people that had to stand outside the instance because we couldn’t zone in or else we’d get into combat because there were STILL people trying to run away. *sigh*

The 2ndtime, the GM was saying, "All dots off! DoTs off. Take DoTs off." And after being in raid after raid and hearing people that don’t know what they’re talking about say that (because you cannot "click off" your DoTs) and getting frustrated for people yelling at Locks and Spriest for DoTs, I said, "Dude, stop saying ‘Dots off’ you can’t click them off." He says, "I’m not stupid I know you can’t click off your DoTs. I mean stop putting them on. If you don’t know this fight, you need to go and watch it on YouTube." Ok 1st, I wasn’t saying you were stupid at all. 2nd, think about how you’re wording things. Next time just say, "Stop casting DoTs" Because to rest of us, it sounded like you were telling everyone to "take their DoTs off" in other words click them off. So it’s not a big deal, just a miscommunication. It’s understandable, and I’m sorry I said what I said (especially in the tone that I used).

But what I’m not sorry for was Alt+F4′ing out of WoW when you told me to go watch the fight on YouTube. I’ve probably killed Hydross more times than you’ve blinked your eyes in the past week. So I don’t need someone telling me to go watch some shitty YouTube video. I’m sorry and excuse my language…. but fuck that.

I have no issue with Vamrick (the GM). But I do have a problem with the rest of the raid that was wasting everybody’s time. I know that Vamrick is working hard to get this guild geared and ready to push through more of Hyjal. I know that Vamrick was getting a little ticked off during the raid because people were messing around and not paying attention. The tank wasn’t kiting Hydross back over the line when he was supposed to. Or there were tanks randomly walking into the elly’s that pat around Hyross’s platform and pulling before we were buffed and ready to go.

I don’t really understand something… we did awesome in Hyjal. I mean, I was really impressed. But.. we walk into SSC and people instantly become children that don’t listen and can’t walk without Vam holding their hand. To be honest, I don’t think that a boss fight should ever have to explained during a raid. If you don’t know the fight (checking out BossKillers or something of the like) already, you shouldn’t be in the raid. I don’t care if you’ve never been in SSC before… you need to open up a web browser and go do some research. It’s easy to do, just read a few paragraphs and watch a video or two. Don’t waste people’s time, please… you end up losing healers for your raid that way

Maybe that was a bitch-tastic thing to do… but to be honest, it was either that or say things in vent to the guildies that would have gotten me kicked from the guild. I really do like this guild and the people in it. And I have mad respect for Vamrick for doing what he does. I know it’s not easy leading a raid… especially leading a raid with people that don’t listen or know what they’re doing. And even though I like the guild and the people… it still blows my mind that we can get all organized for Hyjal and make progress but then step into SSC and fall on our face. *sigh*

Anyway, that’s my rant for today. Bleh.

Jesster

So Sunday… we totally kicked Kaz’s ass =) That made me a vurry happeh chickadee! See (^.^)  <– That’s how happeh! Took us 4 attempts. We wiped twice on the waves and then once on the actual boss fight. Which really isn’t too bad. After waiting like.. for-fucking-ever to even step foot in Hyjal (without playing on my private server) it felt awesome to down a first boss on my first night in! I just wish that Robby was there to share it with me… how bad is that when you want to share Hyjal with your other half… pretteh lamez hehe.

Monday night, we attempted Azgalor. We just weren’t able to get that 6th wave down in time for the 7th. We would still have mobs left from the 6th wave up when #7 was coming out. Not every time, but about 75% of the time, that was the case. Our healers were getting killed way to early. And some of the tanks were dying before a healer even realized he was getting low on health. Two shots, sometimes. It was crazy. I was tanking a frost wyrm thingy for a bit at one point lol. I thought that was kinda funny. Those things suck =( I still think we did pretty good, though. I could definitely tell that we were making progress towards the end because we were getting the waves down quicker and less people were dying. I’m willing to bet that just a couple more attempts and we would have had it… well we would have at least seen the boss anyway hehe.

I’m still getting a feel for the guild. The guild master, Vamrick, seems to have good ideas for leading raids. I mean hey, he’s gotta be doing something right if they’ve gotten this far you know? It’s not easy running a raiding guild, he gets props for that. There are a couple things I’d do differently, but everyone has their own ideas and they own ways. The people are nice enough. A couple people have really gotten my attention as far as personality and game play. I’m sure as time goes by I’ll experience more of that. These guys aren’t afraid to try and they have good heads on their shoulders. I’m happy to be in <Shinigami>, truth be told.

I decided to disband the other guild and I’ll tell you why (not that it really matters). Basically, the guild was dropped into my hands with zero notice, everyone was leaving for another server anyway. The guild was down to about 15 accounts and those people hadn’t logged on in a while and every day more and more people were leaving. To be honest, I was hoping that I could bring it back together and get people to join up and maybe make a small casual raiding guild out of it. I tried to recruit people and get people that were already in the guild to get interested and to log on more often but that just wasn’t going well. I gave it a week. Granted, that’s not really that long, but when you’ve ran guilds before, you’re able to see early on when something just isn’t going to work. I didn’t want to bother with it if I’m going to try and focus on this new guild. I’d really like to get back into raiding again. I could be happy without it. But if I have the chance, I’ll take it without hesitation.

My WoW playing seems to keep going round and about and up and down. Like, one minute I’m doing my own thing not really into a guild or anything like that. Then I join a guild that’s alright and I like some of the people in it. Then I’m running said guild. Sitting here saying I’m happy doing Kara… then I’m posting blogs about downing the 3rd boss in Hyjal. It’s nuts. *shrug* I kinda like it that way though. God only knows what the hell I’ll be doing in 3 months from now lol.

Well quite honestly, I didn’t see this happening any time soon. I was standing around in Orgrimmar messing around with my mods and someone asked what my +healing was and after I told him 1801 unbuffed, he’s like, "We need a healer for Hyjal, but you gotta be a guildie." I thought about it for a minute and though I like the other guild I’ve been trying to get into a raiding guild that’s past SSC/TK for a LONG time (as you guys know). We left our last server in search of one. I hope this works out.

Decided to make my Warlock GM of the other guild again… not sure what’s gonna happen with that. More and more people kept leaving anyway. I might just liquidate the guild bank and move on *shrug* Dunno yet. I guess we’ll see. Anyway, I’m in a group to do Kara for badges(which I need like whoa) so I’ll write more later. I’ll make sure to post after the raid tonight

Jesster

**NOTE: This post may be a little hard to follow since my mind is going 20 miles a minute and my fingers can barely type fast enough to keep up!**

… And the new GM is me. Most of the players (all the higher levels) decided to re-roll on another server because "the economy sucks and there are too many kids playing on this server!" Um… guys what guys? There are kids on EVERY server. There are going to be children (or even adults in their twenties-thirties) that are going to harass you, beg you for shit, harass you some more, ask you to help them to quest even though you’re level 70 and they’re level 5… you can’t get away from this. You cannot escape the stupid people and you can’t get away from a fluctuating economy. Ghostlands is a newer server. It’s going to be a while before it reaches any form of "normal" so your best bet is just to sit back and relax and enjoy the game. I was talking to a guildie about all this. She and her husband play together and have made a few toons and share a lot of the same views as I do on the game. I’m basically gonna say everything I said to her Tuesday night. A guild master is only as strong as it’s lowest level-noob player.

A guild master is nothing with his or her guildies. The guild members MAKE the guild. So all these guild masters who treat their guildies like crap can go suck a nut. I’ve been in a lot of guilds in my (almost) 4 years of playing. And I’ve met a lot of GM’s that think they poop marshmallows and pee sweet tea and that the world revolves around them. It was all about loot for them… and power I suppose. "We have to be top guild!" and all that crap. *rolls eyes* They decide to treat their guildies like shit, treat them unfairly and such… they had rude awakenings when they found themselves with no guildies left to raid with because they all left for other guilds. Then when they didn’t have enough people to raid with, whined and begged people to come back because they couldn’t get anymore epic lootz yo! Kiss them bye bye, boo hoo, whatever.

I don’t want to be one of those guild masters. When I had my guild over on Turalyon, it was awesome. We all enjoyed playing with each other (heh.. hehe… that sounded dirty *giggles*) and we had fun doing 5 mans. We all completed each other rather well in instances. But when it came time for Kara, we just couldn’t get it going. All of our schedules were out of whack and we just couldn’t get the right classes on at the right time, so we disbanded and joined other guilds. I loved being guild master of that guild. I miss it a lot. We had a lot of fun.

With this guild, I’d like to be in Kara by the end of the month. That’s a reasonable goal. I’m not in a huge rush to get to 25 man content. We’ll get there when we’re ready. But until then getting everyone keyed and ready for Kara is my focus… but I want to enjoy the ride. So many people just rush to 70 and the game becomes almost like a job to them. They spend so much time worrying about gear and money and mounts and whatever the hell else. Yes the game is about that stuff… but that’s not ALL it’s about. I don’t want to play a game that seems like work. Quite honestly a lot of the people I talk to in raiding guilds, like the hardcore guilds, they make it sound so shitty to be there. It’s nothing but having their GM yell at them about "getting geared, killing this boss, better gear, grind this rep, more gear, grind this much money for the guild and blah blah blah" I can’t take that shit.

I pay $15 month just like everyone else… I’m going to play how I want to play, not how someone else wants me to. I take my time leveling my toons. I’m in no rush to get to 70 on my lock. Yeah it’ll be great once I get there. But I enjoy doing the quests, reading the story line and crafting and meeting new people and talking time to talk to them. I’m addicted to making alts because I enjoy the leveling aspect of the game the most. So many people just speed to 70 and don’t enjoy the ride. I’m one of those people that do the grey quests because they want to do every quest they can. I get so far ahead of myself in XP I end up with green and grey quests and so many people say, "Oh just skip them, it’s not worth it." Well, it is to me. Rob tells me, "It’s a waste of time to run around turning in certain quests because you do more central quests and get quicker XP." I like running from one continent to the other to turn something in. This part is gonna make me sound like a total geek… but I kind of like role playing with WoW. Not as most RP’ers do, though. I like thinking of myself as a message carrier that could get totally ripped apart by hiyenas taking a package from Crossroads to Ratchet. *shrug* I don’t think like that all the time. But sometimes it’s fun. It’s a game. And this game to me, helps me keep my imagination in good shape =) Sounds totally retarded to most of you I’m sure *sigh* Blah.

Anyway, I’ve rambled on long enough. I just need to end the post now lol. Bottom line, I’m gonna keep the guild going at a casual pace and we’ll take it a step at a time until we get to where we all want to be as a guild… working together, not against each other. Good night, y’all.

Jesster

P.s. Right now, I’ve got Amedeah in the que for transfer. Apparently they are having issues with transferring toons to other server *sigh* So it might be a little while before I have her. Let’s hope it’s not too long of a wait.

HOLY HELL I’M BACK! And damn does it feel good! I was going crazy not having my site. Our server got fried and I’ve been down for about 2 months now. But I’m back and in a blogging mood so look out people!

Rob and I made toons over on the Ghostlands server because right now I’m SO sick of Turalyon. I have a couple good friends there but I just can’t stand playing there anymore. I can never find good groups. So many of the people I find there have either bought their accounts and don’t know how to play… or are 14 year old boys that once they find out I’m a girl lose their heads and turn to mush. *sigh*

I made a Warlock, Baellatrix. I named her after Rob’s pally on our other server, Baell. She’s Affliction so far. More than likely gonna stay that way. I likey the DPS. I liked my other Warlock that I had (also Affliction) (currently sitting on Duskwood at lvl 42) so I decided to make another one. Rob made a hunter, Rofocale, since he’s never had one past lvl 10, which is sad because lvl 10 is when it all starts for a hunter lol. He’s lvl 37, I’m lvl 33 (will be at least 35-36 by the end of the night). We found a nice guild there… let’s hope this one lasts.

<Sovereign> has nice people. A large handful of 70’s and loads of 60’s working their way up the food chain. The guild has proven to be totally member oriented (i.e. making sure everyone has mats for skilling up, always getting groups together for quests, instances, etc.). I’ve noticed that the higher lvls and 70’s really don’t mind taking time out of their day to help lowbies with things or to donate items. That’s something you don’t see every day. I’m leveling up in chanting on this toon and someone asked if anyone needed stuff out of the guild bank. I told them I’d take any lower lvl chanting mats if they weren’t needed. The next day my inbox was bombed with mails with mats lol. My bank alt has so much crap that needs to get donated to the bank it’s not even funny. Like 2 bags full of stuff lol. I keep forgetting to do that *makes mental note* But so far there’s been no issues in that guild. Good sense of humor and helpfulness =) I likes.

Anywho, I’ve got some more server crap to deal with. My other sites are still down and I’m not too happy about that. So I suppose that this is all for now. I’m sure there will be yet another blog at some point today/tonight.

Cheers,

Jesster

So my stint with <Rendition> was short lived and big fucking waste of my time. The guild master, a 15 year old, whiney, tight assed sumbitch, decided I didn’t need to be there because a friend of mine and me were calling him out on his bullshit… well mostly a friend of mine lol. Basically he was saying our guild shouldn’t run Mag’s anymore because none of the guildies need loot from there, which is bull. 1) A lot of guildies still needed loot 2) Free badges and loot for 25 minutes of “work” (*laughs ass off* cause work, it ain’t) it’s pretty damned nice. But he insisted that we drop it. Then he started talking about Gruul’s, “Oh no one needs anything from there either, blah blah blah.” But yet we ended up going and he told the raid over vent, “Only reason we’re in here is so I can get my Dagerspine Trophy.” He said it jokingly, but if you were to see how he acted at other times, you’d know he was speaking truth.

He basically didn’t want to go anywhere unless is had loot HE needed/wanted. Quite a few people agreed. A guild master isn’t supposed to use his guild in order to gear himself alone. A GM is supposed to go where the GUILDIES need to go, because you are only as strong as your weakest link… and in order to NOT have weak links, you go where your guildies need loot, whether or not you need loot there or not. I remember way back before Burning Crusade I was the Co-GM of a guild that was clearing MC and BWL, but we still did places like DM, Strat and Scholo because we had guildies that needed loot from there or had quests to do there. That’s just what you do when you’re a guild leader. You’re guildies come first, hands down.

So after the raid in Gruul’s, we were all in guild chat talking about what an idiot the GM was basically. And I got kicked out for agreeing with people and saying he WAS a selfish prick. My friend left shortly after because she didn’t want to put up with anymore of their crap. I don’t blame her.

So enough of my rant. On to the good stuff. I’d like to give a shout out to Belzenef from <Exilium> for making my Belt of The Long Road for me! Thanks Belz! I gemmed it up with a Royal Nightseye and a Luminous Noble Topaz. My unbuffed healing is at 1798. Woot woot. Just gotta work on somehow getting up to 10k mana unbuffed… Dunno how… I’ll work it out somehow. Have any ideas Thur?

Anywho, enough for now. Ta!

So Rob and I joined the guild <Rendition> a couple weeks ago and things have been going pretty smoothly. They are just starting out with 25 mans pretty much. This past week in SCC, we downed Lurker (1st attempt we wiped, 2nd fucked him good) and Leo. Leo was a pain in the ass sumbitch that took us some learnin’. But we finally pulled our shit together and kicked his ass, too. It was my first time ever downing Leo, so I was pretty happy about that

Other than raiding, Needlles and I seem to fit in rather well. There are a bunch of like minded, perverted sickos in the guild so we fit right in *winks* Come to find out a couple of our friends are in the guild as well, I about wet my panties when I saw that Ziph was in the guild. He was in CT with us since we killed that stupid Blacktalon fuck in Hellfire. And even better news! He got married!! Woot woot go Ziph! His wifey is also in the guild with us!

Overall, I’m pretty happy about joining up with these guys (and a couple gals). I will say that their organization with raids and such needs some work. But the GM was apparently just handed the reins of the guild and didn’t really know what to do. So it’s a learning experience for all us, I suppose. Their doing a good job. We definately made some progress in SSC this week and it was awesome. Keep up the good work guys!

Cheers!

Jesster

Limeonade hit 50 a couple days ago. I’m rather happy with the way I’m progressing. I went from 40 to 50 in about a week. Her Leather Working is at 250, Lock Picking at 170, Skinning at 300 (duh). Her gear is pretty decent. Mostly crafted stuff with a few drops/purchased items. That’s not bad considering all the stuff that’s been going on around here. A friend of mine moved in with us and is staying the guest room. We rearranged the whole house to make room *shrug* I love having her here though *winks*

Anywho, so I’m in this guild that is made up of people that my hubby works with (among a couple other random people we picked up along the way) and our friend Matt (from Turalyon). There is hardly ever more than 5 people on at a time. But I do like that everyone knows everyone on a first name basis and that we all get along rather well. It just makes me wonder what’s gonna happen when we all hit 70 and are ready for Kara… what are we gonna do then? I dunno about that yet.

So since I’m only at 170 Lock Picking and I should be at 225 for my level, I’ve been running around trying to gather Worn Lockboxes and finding footlockers to have my way with haha. I’ve got a bank FULL of Sturdy Lockboxes and those should get me to at least 225… if not 250. I’ve also gotta gather some more Rugged Leather to make a few things to lvl up to 265 so that I can make myself some more armor I’m in need of some upgrades.

I absolutely LOVE having Riposte and Blad Blury. I don’t know I ever lived without it! I recently respecc’d so that I could have them. I gotta tell ya, Blade Flury has totally saved my life quite a few times. Just awesome, AWESOME!

I’m gonna need to use Rob’s pally to mine for ore so that I can make some money from the AH. I am in DIRE need of gold like whoa! I need new weapons and training is getting expensive and I’ve got like… 10g on me right now =( How horrible is that? Pretty horrible, I say. So horray for farming, grinding and leveling shit. Woot.

Oh in other, totally non-related news, I got a French manicure today and I got my toes painted this bold, bright blue that matches the ball in my labret *cheers* Yay for pretty fingers and toes!! Huzzah!

Ok, that’s all *giggles*

Gee it’s been a while since I’ve updated. I didn’t realize how long it’d been. My Gnome Rogue, Limeonade, is now lvl 24 (very close to 25 even). She should have been at least 30 by now but I’ve had other stuff going on. I’m specc’ing her Combat. Seems to working out ok so far. I pretty much know nothing about Rogues at all so I’m going by Rob’s guidance since he has a 50 Rogue. Also, Matt, a friend from Turalyon, is able to give me all the tips and tricks as he has a 70 Rogue.

The guild I’m in now is made up of Rob’s co-workers haha. It’s kind of funny. They made their own little guild. Only think that sucks is that no one is on during the day when I am… they are all at work =( So there’s not really anyone to talk to or anything. But I’ve always liked being in the same guild as Rob *shrug*

As for my Horde toons, I haven’t really logged on them very much in the last month. The guild that my toons were in decided to kick me out because I hadn’t played in a while. *shrug* So the fuck what. No big loss. Not like they were progressing anyway. That and the fact that Rob and I were always stuck on the back burner and ignored half the time kind of made it so that I don’t really give a damn. Ok enough of my bitching

I’m working on the new front page for the site. It’s not quite finished, so it’s not live yet. I’ll post an update when it’s about ready. The writer’s for the site have started to sign up and get their material ready. I know that one of them even has a blog site here on WoWChix.com. I guess I’m going to need a Blog Roll link somewhere now. I’ll get to it… at some point

*Jesster*

It is SO good to be back in my own home and with my own things and around my babies (my 3 kitties and my doggy) and in my own office in my own leather recliner. *sigh of relief* I love my home haha.

I’ve been a busy little beaver since I’ve been home. Working on my jewelry site, making new stuff for the winter carnival and buying all the things I need to get my table set up tomorrow has kept me busy. I’m a little nervous, what if no one likes my stuff? What people scoff and laugh because my stuff sucks balls? *psssh* Fuck that, my shit rocks and I know it *whew* I’m gonna kick ass tomorrow and make some mad cash…. *whimpers* I hope.

Anyway, in actual WoW news, (or at least in MY WoW news) for some odd reason I had an urge to make an Alliance character. My hubby has some friends at work that play on the Alliance side of Muradin, so he made a character there and I decided I would make one, too. I gotta say, my little gnome Rogue, Limeonade (with green hair of course), kicks some ass. She’s only level 7. But I didn’t realize that I would like playing her so much. I do have a lvl 41 Nelf Hunter, but I have never had the desire to go back and play her. I really like playing Limeonade, even though I hate the lower lvls, I can see myself playing her more often. I know that right now, Greg is mentally kicking me in the shin and cursing me for not playing my priest more. Let me explain how I feel about WoW right now:

I love WoW. I love WoW probably a lot more than a girl should love a video game. It makes me happy. If I’m stressed about RL shit, I can log onto my fantasy world and play my little people and make them do what I want them to do. I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to. But lately, I find myself not logging on… because, I feel so stuck with my Priest. I’m so pressured to do anything and everything. Raid this, gear that, rep here, and grind there. For the most part, when I play Amedeah, I’m sitting around doing nothing. No one wants to get a group together for anything I need because they are all off doing their own thing. No big deal though, I can always go grind my Netherwing Rep… which is pretty much all there is for me to do unless I get a group for badges. I’m tired of people telling me what to do on my Priest. I love my priest, a lot. I’ve spent so much time on her. Same goes for my mage, but I feel the same with her. There is only so much I can do on my own.

My guild is nice and all. But a lot of them are rather hypocritical and/or condescending.  Don’t get me wrong, there have been times (like when I first joined) where people made time to help me out with things, go on runs with me, whatever. But now, I can say something in guild chat and I’m ignored. *pssh* Whatever. I’m not the only one it happens to either. I’ve seen other people get ignored or completely looked over. So many times I’ve been told, “Oh Ame, just let me know what you need and I’m there,” or “Hey, just let me know where you need a run through and I’ll go.” But when it comes down to it, I can’t count on any of them *sigh* I’ve gone way outta my way, spent MY gold and MY time to help others. Even if it wasn’t on some big scale. But I’ve sat through many a raid with my raging headaches and my even worse back pain… just because they were short a healer… even though I had only planned to be on for 20 minutes or so. Bah. Whatever.

TBH, only a few people come to mind when I think about those that have helped in me in the game. My hubby, of course, has been the biggest help to me. I can’t even put into words how much. I wouldn’t even still be playing if it weren’t for him. Helel (Matt) has always helped whenever needed, was always down for a run. Shadowlife (Tony) was the same. These two were in my first guild, Crimson Tears. We just kinda stuck together after that. And then of course there’s Thurlarn/Peiyotee (Greg). A smartass to say the least (it’s part of his charm haha), but has never said no to helping when he can.

It’s kind of funny really, Rent to Pwn, that I joined with my Shaman right before Christmas, has been more supportive and is always offering to help with whatever I need. I’m always sure to get a good bunch of laughs and I always feel good while playing with those guys (and girls!). I’m not trying to bash the guild that Amedeah is in. Not by any means at all. I’m just saying that I feel more comfortable and appreciated and… I dunno… wanted. I feel like when I log into Amedeah’s guild, no one gives a damn. But when I log on to Koos or Thread, everyone says hi and what not.

I don’t think I want to try and raid right now. It’s just not working out with my current schedule. And I find it really boring anyway. It’s not worth all the gold I spend on pots, food, etc, only to die a million times because people don’t know what they are doing (and won’t listen to those that do). Right now, I’m happy logging on to Koos and doing a few quests here and there and now, possibly playing my gnome a little more. We’ll see how things pan out. But raiding just isn’t an option for me right now.

*Note* I really don’t want anyone in FL that might be reading this right now to get the wrong idea. I don’t dislike the guild or anyone in it. I just don’t feel that FL’s plans are for me, at least not at this time. If they wish to remove me from the guild, that’s ok by me. I would like to remain in the guild with Amedeah, but if the GM’s feel that I shouldn’t be there, ok then. I’m not trying to bitch about it or anything like that. I just wanted to make that note.

Ok *deep breath* enough of my whining about WoW for tonight. I still have things I need to get done to get ready for tomorrow morning. I have to be at Violet’s school by around 11am I think, possibly even a little earlier. We’ll see how things go.

Cheers,

Jesster